A house for sale in our neighborhood touted that the backyard was accessible from "both sides," which we thought was a super strange thing to highlight in a listing. Like, that's the best thing this house has going for it?

So "both sides" has become a joke in our house. When Pat saw this news story about hurricanes coming at Florida from the east and the west, he held up the screen to me and yelled, "Both sides!"

#familect

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tropical-storm-idalia-hurricane-franklin-double-threat/

Shariki (npl) - combined with a gesture to the head, meaning the gears are still in working order up there. Used if I've managed to dredge up any particularly obscure knowledge or know-how. From Russian шарики, meaning "balls" as in ball-bearings. I think this came second hand from a comedy act I haven't seen, but it has wedged into my #idiolect or indeed #familect

I talked with listeners on WOSU for almost an hour last week about familect stories!

One I've already used is "human" for "humid."

Someone's child got confused and said it was "human outside" instead of "humid outside."

At the beach today, seeing lots of people because of the holiday weekend, I said it was "too human outside today." :)

https://news.wosu.org/show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2023-04-06/grammar-girl-mignon-fogarty

#familect

In this week's podcast, I dug in to the old saying "my sufficiency has been suffonsified." Once you start looking, it's everywhere!

Plus, Valerie Fridland looked at the long-ago origins of tax words. Did you know the Rosetta Stone contains text about taxes?

READ: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/taxes-suffonsified-3PlXJQze/transcript

LISTEN: https://pod.link/173429229/episode/5e5e78089e2f5e028dccf13dbc5f56e0

#GrammarGirl #podcast #linguistics
#familect #oldsayings